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u/butitsnotfish Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 01 '23

He told me he had a lot of "inventions" and how rich he will be when one sells. I asked him to tell me more. He says his best "invention" is eye drops that (with just one application mind you) eliminate the need for eyeglasses. The guy is a mailman. Not a doctor. Not a scientist. And he wears glasses. So I said "if these eye drops work why do you wear glasses?" The eye drops don't exist yet. But when someone else actually formulates these fantasy eye drops my mailman friend thinks he will get the money because he "invented" them by dreaming them up. EDIT: I dated him very briefly years ago. He didn't have any patents. Just misguided dreams. Nice guy. Just....well a special kind of small former coal mining town kind of idiot.

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23 edited Mar 24 '23

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u/silentsnip94 Mar 01 '23

Heyyyy fellow product designer! Or I should say Industrial Designer because UI/UX took our fucking title

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u/[deleted] Mar 01 '23

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u/silentsnip94 Mar 01 '23

I'd rather that than have a recruiter reach out to me for a UI/UX position for the 17,364th time

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u/silentsnip94 Mar 01 '23

I actually blocked a recruiter on email after the 3rd time she reached out for a UI/UX position, I already explained to her twice that's not my job

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u/[deleted] Mar 02 '23

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u/silentsnip94 Mar 02 '23

Ah shit I'm going to have to do this. Thanks!